Richmond Police F.A.Q.

Any Rich­mond Po­lice Of­fi­cer is able to take fin­ger­prints for citi­zens at any time of the day. There is no charge for this ser­vice. Citi­zens re­quest­ing fin­ger­print­ing ser­vices are gen­er­ally re­quired to pro­vide the fin­ger­print card. We do have chil­dren’s print cards avail­able and these are also free of charge.

Op­tion 1 If you re­ceive a mu­nici­pal park­ing ticket or State of Maine traf­fic ci­ta­tion which you feel is un­jus­ti­fied or was is­sued due to cir­cum­stances be­yond your con­trol, you are en­cour­aged to con­tact the of­fi­cer who is­sued you the ticket to ex­plain your po­si­tion. If you are not sat­is­fied with the of­fi­cer’s re­sponse, you may con­tact Chief Rich­ard Heald. Chief Heald is not able to or­der any of­fi­cer to re­scind a ticket but will take com­plaints or con­cerns about the of­fi­cer’s ac­tion, de­meanor or lan­guage.
Op­tion 2 If you would like a Maine Dis­trict Court trial on any traf­fic ci­ta­tion, all of the in­struc­tions for this are in­cluded on the cop­ies of the ticket you were is­sued. You may con­tact the Dis­trict Court Vio­la­tions Bu­reau at (207) 783-5422 with any ques­tion.

Our dis­patch­ers are trained to gather as much in­for­ma­tion as pos­si­ble in or­der to de­ter­mine the na­ture and se­ri­ous­ness of your call. This in­for­ma­tion is criti­cal for the re­spond­ing of­fi­cer’s safety and the safety of the pub­lic. On emer­gency calls, the dis­patcher will re­lay in­for­ma­tion to the re­spond­ing of­fi­cer(s) while ask­ing you ad­di­tional ques­tions.

Rich­mond Po­lice of­fi­cers have ac­cess to a wide range of tools for unlock­ing ve­hi­cles and we can at­tempt to as­sist mo­tor­ists with a lock­out. The reg­is­tered owner or op­era­tor will have to sign a waiver that re­leases the de­part­ment from li­abil­ity be­fore we can at­tempt to unlock your ve­hi­cle. Should the of­fi­cer be un­able to get into the ve­hi­cle, we can also call a re­li­able lock­smith or tow op­era­tor for you.

Please con­tact the Sa­gada­hoc County Cor­rec­tions De­part­ment at (207) 443-8229.

While some re­ports can be taken over the phone, most will re­quire an of­fi­cer to re­spond to the scene.

Call the Po­lice De­part­ment and ask to speak to the duty of­fi­cer. The of­fi­cer will gen­er­ate an in­ci­dent re­port that every pa­trol of­fi­cer will read and they will be able to place your neighbor­hood on di­rected en­force­ment.

Like most places, the Town of Rich­mond has clearly marked fire lanes, no park­ing ar­eas and handi­capped only park­ing ar­eas. We also have a win­ter park­ing ban that runs from No­vem­ber 15th un­til April 16th. The ban pro­hib­its park­ing on any pub­lic way from 11:00 p.m. ~ 6:00 a.m. The ban as­sists the Pub­lic Works De­part­ment in their snow re­moval du­ties.

All per­sons in­ter­ested in a law en­force­ment ca­reer in the State of Maine have to be cer­ti­fied by the Maine Crimi­nal Jus­tice Acad­emy. There are two lev­els of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, Full-time and Part-time. Full-time law en­force­ment of­fi­cers have to at­tend the 18-week Ba­sic Acad­emy within one year of their be­ing hired full time. Part-time of­fi­cers (some­times re­ferred to as Re­serves) must suc­cess­fully com­plete the 100-Hour Pre-Ser­vice Acad­emy. No per­son may work as a law en­force­ment of­fi­cer in Maine with­out (at a mini­mum) the 100-Hour cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. All can­di­dates for po­lice of­fi­cer in the Town of Rich­mond must sub­mit a com­pleted Po­lice De­part­ment ap­pli­ca­tion and then suc­cess­fully com­plete a physi­cal agil­ity test, oral board in­ter­view, back­ground check, psy­cho­logi­cal exam and poly­graph exam. Ap­pli­ca­tion pack­ets may be ob­tained at the po­lice de­part­ment, or by call­ing the Po­lice De­part­ment at (207) 737-2615 or mail­ing a re­quest to P.O. Box 93, Rich­mond, ME 04357.